#remixed classics

[fourthleafluckart]

I was sold on this book from the moment I heard "trans Pride and Prejudice", and then it was indeed SO SWEET. Love these cuties

This 2BDC: a bookmark for Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa

[nosuchthingasdeadlanguages]

remixed classics romeo and juliet has to be the funniest shit ever. like they could've made it a trans love story. or a sapphic love story w/ genderbent romeo. or a gay love story with genderbend juliet. or made it bencutio or romercutio. but no. romeo and valentine.

[verdantmeadows]

i think the derivative of pride and prejudice where elizabeth is a trans man and darcy is a gay man and theyre gay for each other is the best most indulgent book to come out in 2024 actually

[transbookoftheday]

Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of longing and subverting society’s patriarchal and cisheteronormative expectations.

London, 1812. Oliver Bennet feels trapped. Not just by the endless corsets, petticoats and skirts he's forced to wear on a daily basis, but also by society's expectations. The world—and the vast majority of his family and friends—think Oliver is a girl named Elizabeth. He is therefore expected to mingle at balls wearing a pretty dress, entertain suitors regardless of his interest in them, and ultimately become someone's wife.

But Oliver can't bear the thought of such a fate. He finds solace in the few times he can sneak out of his family's home and explore the city rightfully dressed as a young gentleman. It's during one such excursion when Oliver becomes acquainted with Darcy, a sulky young man who had been rude to "Elizabeth" at a recent social function. But in the comfort of being out of the public eye, Oliver comes to find that Darcy is actually a sweet, intelligent boy with a warm heart. And not to mention incredibly attractive.

As Oliver is able to spend more time as his true self, often with Darcy, part of him dares begin to hope that his dream of love and life as a man to be possible. But suitors are growing bolder—and even threatening—and his mother is growing more desperate to see him settled into an engagement. Oliver will have to choose: Settle for safety, security, and a life of pretending to be something he's not, or risk it all for a slim chance at freedom, love, and a life that can be truly, honestly his own.

[lgbtqreads]

Exclusive Cover Reveal: This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier

Not to play favorites, but I have been waiting for this book since the dawn of time, so I am wildly excited to be revealing the cover today of This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier, a transfeminine YA remix of The Picture of Dorian Gray releasing from Feiwel & Friends in their Remixed Classics series on February 17, 2026! Here’s the story: Happiness needs to be earned in the face of impossible…

Exclusive Cover Reveal: This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier

[thatonemouseykid]

I’m reading Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa right now, which is a retelling of Pride and Prejudice where ‘Elizabeth’ is a closeted trans boy called Oliver, and it’s really interesting as a (recently outed, formerly closeted) trans guy to read his internal monologue in third person. There’s a lot of affirmation in it, because in real life you don’t have to gender yourself in your head so much which is why I think a lot of trans people accidentally misgender themselves sometimes. Because of the way it’s written, you have a lot of him being treated and referred to as a girl, but it’s always undercut by that narrative voice gendering him correctly.

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Juliet from Teach the Torches to Burn is aromantic asexual!

[theboyatthebustop]

ngl, I have this theory that the Remixed Classics series is (or could be seen as) Feiwel and Friends' response to the infamous Barnes and Noble Diverse Editions incident. Because you have to admit that it’s better to have diverse retellings of classics than just putting POC on the covers.